Uncharted Waters:

October, 2017

Company building is hard. You have to decide what you want to sell and hope there is a market of customers out there large enough to make the money you want. There are the internal decisions of deciding how to build the product, figuring out who the right people to build it are, oh and how to pay...

Process improvement in software teams seems harder to come by, and sometimes stops altogether, after the first few tries.
We see the exact same phenomenon in exercise. Take a person that has never done anything athletic in their life and introduce them to a barbell and a squat rack. For the...

I have been a pretty staunch opponent of certification in the past. I spent years working as an instructor for a program that dealt in hands on experience. To get through a class, students had to perform tasks, and then debrief on what they did and why with their peers. Assuming a student made it...

I have worked in offices for about half of my career, and from my home office for the other half. In the early 2000s, cubical farms were still very popular. I remember working at a company that had multiple floors of fairly well thought out cubical pods. They boasted that everyone in the company,...

About This Blog

From the Cloud to Virtualization, Software As a Service to Web Services, ideas seem to be everywhere all the time. Somewhere, somehow, someone needs to separate the wheat from the chaff. We’ve asked Matt Heusser to provide his insight and commentary on the prevailing issues for IT staff today.

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